[PDF file]: […] and held it until 1978. by Wilson, Jenkins, Healey and Callaghan), its central thrust was virulently anti-Heath. Thus the AES recommended that the UK should leave the EEC and also (mistakenly) accused the Conservatives of being the party of increased taxation.2 When the UK voted to stay in EEC in June 1975 the central […]
The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril H ow do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. […]
[PDF file]: Between The Waves The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 Tom McTague London: Picador, 2025, £25, h/b Robin Ramsay The ‘revolution’ in the subtitle is the UK’s relationship with the EEC/EU – a huge subject, covered in great detail, in a very big book. Including notes and index, this is 544 (decently-bound) pages. […]
[PDF file]: […] vary enormously but there is no equivalent body of work in English that I can think (and the report will have been published in all the official EEC languages).16 Common Cause Another strand in the de Courcy and ex-IPG member network links it to Common Cause, the nominally anti-Communist group which, like the Economic […]
[PDF file]: (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril How do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned that […]
[PDF file]: […] Ireland started moving slowly down that route. Equally, it must also be the case – given her earlier demands for a rebate in UK contributions to the EEC, and her sharing of many of Powell’s views – that she would have ended up with a highly adversarial relationship with Europe anyway. It is not […]
[PDF file]: […] twenty five years before 1975 is 1950. Between 1950 and 1975 was hardly a catastrophe. Economic growth may have fallen behind the USA and some of the EEC; lots of things could have been improved. But if Britain in 1965 was not heaven on earth, nobody was living in the doorways of Oxford St […]
[…] twenty five years before 1975 is 1950. Between 1950 and 1975 was hardly a catastrophe. Economic growth may have fallen behind the USA and some of the EEC; lots of things could have been improved. But if Britain in 1965 was not heaven on earth, nobody was living in the doorways of Oxford St […]
[…] twenty five years before 1975 is 1950. Between 1950 and 1975 was hardly a catastrophe. Economic growth may have fallen behind the USA and some of the EEC; lots of things could have been improved. But if Britain in 1965 was not heaven on earth, nobody was living in the doorways of Oxford St […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] words, the Government’s policy of not interning Loyalist paramilitaries was now in serious jeopardy. The situation was further complicated because the British Parliament was bitterly divided on EEC membership and Edward 18 See Document 10 in the separate Wallace Appendices file. 16 Heath needed the eight Unionist votes in the House of Commons to […]
